Borates

They are without phosphates, borates, nitrates, and other earth pollutants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These minerals form when boron-bearing waters percolate into inland desert lakes and evaporate, leaving layers of borates, chlorides, and sulfates. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And borates in significant strengths sufficient to prevent insect infestation and prevent mold are Not harmless, as per the warnings to wear protective clothing! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some industrial minerals are used as sources of important chemicals (e.g. halite for sodium chloride and borax for borates). ❋ Unknown (2008)

RE: #12 – That dust from those lake beds, significantly, often contains borates. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Pests do not like cellulose because of the borates. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Cellulose is treated with borates and has a class 1 fire rating. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That old Owens lake dust has in it, in addition to salts and borates, a goodly amount of old detritus from the algae and brine shrimp that lived in it. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The report of natural deposits thus situated will appear very improbable to scientific men, for there is nothing to account for the separation of the salt from the borates, or for the accumulation of salt above the level of other crystalline deposits. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

_Borax or borates_ are tested for in the residue insoluble in alcohol. ❋ H. A. Appleton (N/A)

These are volcanic exhalations, in which jets of steam carrying boric acid and various borates, together with ammonium compounds, emerge from vents in the ground. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Whatever their source, the borates are carried in solution by the waters of occasional rains to shallow basins, which become covered with temporary thin sheets of water or "playa lakes." ❋ Unknown (1915)

These may subsequently be covered with drifting sands and capillary action may cause the borates to work up through the sands, becoming mixed with them and efflorescing at the surface. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Stassfurt salts of Germany (p. 113) contain borates of this type in the carnallite zone of the upper part of the deposits. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Chile has gold, silver, copper, iron, nitrates, borates and coal; all of these minerals are worked by the people of the country as well as by foreign enterprise. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

At the bottom of the crucible (fig. 4) a button of metal, resting on this a speise; then a regulus, next a slag made up of silicates and borates and metallic oxides, and lastly, on the top another layer of slag, mainly made up of fusible chlorides and sulphates. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

The natural borates are used in the preparation of borax, which is largely employed as a preservative agent, for fluxing, and for other purposes. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

These are the borates in which the trioxide (B_ {2} O_ {3}) acts the part of a weak acid. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

The borates are mostly fusible compounds, and are soluble in acids and in solutions of ammonic salts. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

With soluble and alkaline borates sufficient nitric acid is added to render it faintly acid. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)